'Ring' Added End-to-End Encryption to its Wireless Products
Colin Smith — September 8, 2022 — Tech
Ring announced that its smart video doorbell encryption service will now be accessible on its wireless smart doorbells. The feature was previously only available for wired doorbells, as these devices communicate with the network less often than the wireless varieties. However, just one year after the original release, Ring confirmed that the wireless models could also be made fully secure.
The wireless Ring doorbells with end-to-end encryption enabled ensures that only the doorbell's owner has access to the audio and video from the feed. These files can be backed up to a specific device and only accessed via a special passcode. This ensures that Ring, or even law enforcement requesting the information from Ring, cannot access the files unless the owner enables them to. This is an upgrade from the standard encryption before that stored the video and audio files on Ring servers, as these could easily be accessed by Ring staff or by law enforcement.
Image Credit: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge
The wireless Ring doorbells with end-to-end encryption enabled ensures that only the doorbell's owner has access to the audio and video from the feed. These files can be backed up to a specific device and only accessed via a special passcode. This ensures that Ring, or even law enforcement requesting the information from Ring, cannot access the files unless the owner enables them to. This is an upgrade from the standard encryption before that stored the video and audio files on Ring servers, as these could easily be accessed by Ring staff or by law enforcement.
Image Credit: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge
Trend Themes
1. Wireless Smart Doorbell Encryption - The trend of expanding encryption services to wireless smart doorbells, providing full security to owners' audio and video feeds.
2. End-to-end Encryption for Internet of Things (iot) Devices - The trend of extending end-to-end encryption to various IoT devices such as video doorbells, ensuring owner privacy and security for all IoT-enabled products.
3. Personal Data Privacy on Smart Home Devices - The trend of prioritizing users' personal data privacy on smart home devices, exemplified by Ring's newly added encryption service to wireless doorbells, represents the growing opportunity for startups to develop new security features for smart homes.
Industry Implications
1. Home Security Industry - Home security industry professionals can create new solutions to integrate end-to-end encryption on wireless smart devices, which will increase the differentiation and competitive advantage against other industry players.
2. Iot Industry - IoT industry manufacturers can focus on incorporating end-to-end encryption for all IoT smart devices, to enhance security and privacy of owners' personal data, creating new product opportunities which stand out due to their increased level of security.
3. Cybersecurity Industry - The cybersecurity industry has an opportunity to offer specialized encryption solutions for smart devices, and similarly prioritize users' data privacy ensuring more secure home device networks.
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